The City Of Crafts A Phantasy Being Some Account Of A Journey To The Court Of The Printers Guild

Author : Frederic W. Goudy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330036426
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book The City of Crafts written by Frederic W. Goudy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The City of Crafts: A Phantasy Being Some Account of a Journey to the Court of the Printers' Guild In the summer of 1921, while in London, the writer of the "City of Crafts" one day, while sauntering down Charing Cross Road, chanced to see in the window of one of the many book-sellers in that street, a little pamphlet - "The Court of the Printers' Guild," written by W. Loftus Hare and decorated by the late Lovat Fraser. The pamphlet had been issued some seven or eight years ago, primarily to advertise the Cranford Press, which is the trade name of George Pulman & Sons, a firm of London printers, but the decorations by Fraser, whose untimely death is so generally deplored, soon made it sought for, and copies are not now easy to come upon. Issued originally at a shilling, the present writer paid "seven and six" for his copy, and glad to get it at that. While reading the pamphlet, it occurred to the writer that it might be made the basis for an evening's entertainment for The American Institute of Graphic Arts, of which he was President, thinking then only to use Mr. Hare's text and add slides of pages from the works of the old printers mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.